Heinrich Böll Stiftung | Tbilisi - South Caucasus Region

This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Note the spikes that adorn the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona surrounding the virion, when viewed electron microscopically. A novel coronavirus, named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China in 2019. The illness cau

hbs Tbilisi Office will close its offices due to the spread of Corona-virus

From March 23, Heinrich Boell Foundation Tbilisi Office - South Caucasus Region will close its regional office in Tbilisi, Georgia and the branch office in Yerevan, Armenia due to the spread of Corona-virus (Covid19). Read in Armenian

Latest Publication

Stories of the South Caucasus. Special Edition

The publication is prepared in the frameworks of hbs Tbilisi and media platform "Netgazeti" cooperation project "Stories of the South Caucasus". It includes 22 articles divided into several chapters: History, International Context, Everyday Life and Politics, Chronicle, Trust and Peace building.

Shrinking spaces for civil society: the Foreign Agent Law in Russia

On February 4 Heinrich Boell Foundation Tbilisi Office – South Caucasus Region organized the public discussion "Shrinking spaces for civil society: the Foreign Agent Law in Russia".

უცნობი წითელარმიელი გოგონები საბჭოთა საქართველოდან, 1945 წელი, გერმანია, საბჭოთა წარსულის კვლევის ლაბორატორიის კოლექცია.

Call for Small Research Grants - Women and World War II in Soviet Georgia

The Heinrich Boell Foundation Tbilisi Office – South Caucasus Region announces a call for small research grants for students, young researchers, gender specialists, historians and anthropologists from Georgia.

Gayane Shagoyan's archive - Three Women's old portrait

Call for Small Research Grants - Women and World War II in Soviet Armenia

The Heinrich Boell Foundation South Caucasus Region, Yerevan Branch Office announces a call for small research grants for students, young researchers, historians and anthropologists from Armenia. Read in Armenian

Maria Stepanova, from Azerbaijan is browsing her old photos in the album

Call for Small Research Grants - Women and World War II in Soviet Azerbaijan

Democracy

8th European History Forum: 30 years after 1989: Freedom from What? Freedom to do What?

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By Eviya Hovhannisyan

European History Forum: 30 Years after 1989

By Katie Sartania

Conflict Transformation

invited guest on the panel: Tamar Kochoradze, Pavlo Klimkin, Fransciska Smolnik and the moderator stefan meister

The International Dimension of Regional Conflicts: The cases of Georgia and Ukraine

Post-Soviet conflict zones have internal and external dimensions. Internally, countries have to deal with the IDPs, a constant threat of spillover effects from the disputed territories and the human dimension of conflicts. Externally, other players use these conflicts to manipulate and control the affected countries.

Workshops on conflict transformation and peace building issues

(Closed project) From March 2019 Heinrich Boell Foundation Tbilisi Office supported a new project which aimed to hold workshops on conflict transformation and peacebuilding issues at four regional universities of Georgia.

Europe and South Caucasus

Armenian-Georgian Neighborhood: same directions or diverging paths?

Georgia and Armenia have strived to establish good neighborhood policy throughout centuries. There has been neighborly competition over certain issues but during the last two decades, governments of these countries have taken steps to develop joint initiatives in cultural, economic and political spheres.The South Caucasus Regional Office of the Heinrich Boell Foundation supports the regional dialogue between these two countries.

the banner of the event "Georgia and the EU - Looking for a common vision for EaP

Georgia and the EU - Looking for a Common Vision for the EaP - Livestream

On October 10, hbs Tbilisi Office organized the public discussion: Georgia and the EU – Looking for a Common Vision for the Eastern Partnership (EaP).

Ecology, Sustainable Develoment

Green Lab Armenia 2019

The American University of Armenia Acopian Center for the Environment and Heinrich Boell Foundation Yerevan South Caucasus Yerevan Office announce a call for participation in Green Lab - 2019. Read in Armenian

Energy Poverty - Guidance for Public Discourse and State Policy in the time of Reform

In 2018, the organization World Experience for Georgia (WEG) with support of the South Caucasus Regional Office of the Heinrich Boell Foundation implements project "Energy Poverty - Guidance for Public Discourse and State Policy in the time of Reform". The main goal of the project is to provide the factual basis, logical framework and recommendations for state policy and public discourse on energy poverty issues.

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